Saturday, January 18, 2014

Crystal Glow
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Karen Kosicki: infrared photography
Max Block: dichroic fused glass jewelry and objects d'art
Mary Giehl: crystal sculpture grown from alum, and mixed media wall hangings featuring crochet elements

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Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

The Art of Video Games
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, $5 Everson members, $30 family (up to 2 adults & 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Part of a ten-city national tour, "The Art of Video Games" is one of the first major exhibitions to explore the 40-year evolution of video games as an artistic medium, with a focus on striking graphics, creative storytelling, and player interactivity. The exhibition features some of the most influential artists and designers across five eras of game development, from early pioneers to contemporary designers. Video games use player participation to tell stories and engage audiences. In the same way as film, animation and performance, video games are a compelling and influential form of narrative art.

"The Art of Video Games" focuses on the interplay of graphics, technology and storytelling through some of the best games for 20 gaming systems ranging from the Atari VCS to the PlayStation 3. The exhibition features 80 video games that demonstrate the evolution of the medium. The games are presented through still images and video footage. In addition, the galleries include video interviews with developers and artists, historic game consoles and large prints of in-game screen shots.

New technologies allow designers to create increasingly interactive and sophisticated game environments while staying grounded in traditional game types. Five featured games, one from each era, are available in the exhibition galleries for visitors to play for a few minutes, to gain some feel for the interactivity. The playable gamesPac-Man, Super Mario Brothers, The Secret of Monkey Island, Myst and Flowershow how players interact with the virtual worlds, highlighting innovative new techniques that set the standard for many subsequent games.

Visitors to the exhibition are greeted by excerpts from selected games projected 12 feet high, accompanied by a chipmusic soundtrack by 8 Bit Weapon and ComputeHer, including "The Art of Video Games Anthem" recorded by 8 Bit Weapon specifically for the exhibition. These multimedia elements convey the excitement and complexity of the featured video games. An interior gallery includes a series of short videos showing the range of emotional responses players have while interacting with games. Excerpts from interviews with 20 influential figures in the gaming world also are presented in the galleries.

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Petals in Winter: Photography by A.E. Andre
Maxwell Memorial Library

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

The exhibit features black-and-white, color, and colorized photographs of Sonnenberg Gardens in Canandaigua and other nature scenes. "Sonnenberg Gardens is one of the most wonderful places in New York State," says Andre, "and it has definitely inspired my own gardens as well. I want to show these pictures during our cold, snowy season to remind people of the beauty there is in the spring."

Philipe Doddard: The Idea of Modernity in Haitian Contemporary Art
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Through bold brush strokes and vibrant color combinations, graphic and visual artist Philippe Dodard critically engages and empowers audiences throughout the world. Dodard, born and raised in Haiti, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Port-au-Prince and the International School of Bordeaux, France, where he explored graphic design. Although paintings are featured in this exhibition, Dodard is a diverse artist whose body of work includes metalwork, large sculptures and jewelry. Dodard's incredible talent has resulted in international recognition and creative collaborations including his most recent with fashion designer Donna Karan. Irrespective of the discipline or media, Dodard's aesthetic reflects his love for Haiti.

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Holiday Show
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Show features jewelry, ceramics, photography, painting, and fiber art created by regionally and nationally recognized artists. Participating artists include Karin Bremer, Willson Cummer, Jen Gandee, Henry Gernhardt, Michael Hughes, Marie LoParco, Hannah Meredith, Laurel Moranz, Jessica Pilowa, Lily Tsay, Lucie Wellner, and Errol Willett.

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role that handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit. Many fine art and craft artists currently have work on display at the gallery shop. New holiday cards, ornaments, and many gift items fill the space.

Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit will feature oil and watercolor paintings, photographs, drawings and prints of contemporary or vintage winter scenes of Onondaga County.

Fashion After Five
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit, Fashion After Five, curated by Syracuse University's Jeffrey Mayer, associate professor of fashion design and history and curator of the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, will explore the history of the cocktail dress with several spectacular garments from the collections of OHA and the Sue Ann Genet Collection. Also represented in the exhibit will be the work of students from the S.U. Department of Fashion Design who will present their own creations, inspired by the vintage dresses selected for the exhibition—a perfect way to combine the past and the present for this exciting new exhibit.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Highlighting the breadth of the collections' encyclopedic holdings and exploring international artists and themes, these new displays explore the genres of photography, prints, paintings and sculpture. Two of the exhibitions on display in the Print and Photo Study Galleries will highlight the University's vast holdings of historical Japanese photographs and prints. The third exhibition will examine artwork created by international artists who have immigrated to the United States.

America's Calling, presented in the Gallery of American Art, is an exhibition of 16 works of art by 15 foreign-born artists, including Ben Shahn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Josef Albers. The artists included in the exhibition, or their families, were drawn to the United States because it offered opportunities unavailable in their homelands. A variety of media is presented in the display, including painting, ceramics, sculpture and printmaking that are handled using often innovative techniques. Cumulatively, these artists had a profound and permanent effect on the evolution of American art.

The Photo Study Room will present Visions for Sale: Photographs of Nineteenth Century Japan, an exhibition of 22 hand-colored albumen prints from the 19th century exploring the country's people, land and environment that was quickly changing due to modernization. European photographers such as Felice Beato and Baron Raimond Stillfield traveled to Japan to document the nation's exotic landscape and historically idiosyncratic jobs before they were swept away by the tide of modernism.

Ukiyo-e to Shin Hanga: Japanese Woodcuts from the Syracuse University Art Collection will be installed in the Print Study Room and draws from the University's collection of over 300 examples from this important and hugely influential art movement. The prints on view date from the height of color Ukiyo-e printmaking (c1780-1868) through Japan's Meiji period (1868-1912) to 20th century impressions of the Shin Hanga movement (1915-1940s). Masters of this medium are represented, including the work of Utamaro, Kuniyoshi, Hokusai, Hiroshida, Tsuchiya Koitsu and Yoshida Hiroshi. The prints exemplify the soft, painterly style that is synonymous with the Japanese woodcut, and illustrates the wide range of subjects from courtesans to Kabuki theater and the Japanese landscape.

Vein 8: Stone Canoe Exhibition
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

There will be an artist reception this evening 5:30–8:00 pm.

Stone Canoe, A Journal of Arts, Literature and Social Commentary, is published annually by University College of Syracuse University. The prize-winning journal, now in its 8th year, is committed to communicating to the world at large the depth and diversity of the Upstate New York arts community, and each issue features a provocative mix of artists and writers, both well-known and emerging, with ties to the region. The journal's name is inspired by the oldest recorded Upstate New York story, the journey of the Peacemaker in his sacred canoe of stone from Lake Ontario to the Finger Lakes, where he brought the resident warring tribes together to form the Iroquois Confederacy. Each year, the journal's prize-winning writers and artists are presented with an original stone canoe carving by noted Native American sculptor Tom Huff. The current journal, Stone Canoe Number 8, features the work of 24 artists chosen by 2014 arts editor Melora Griffis.

Participating artists include Doug Baird, Stephanie Barkley, Megan Biddle, Francis Clemente, Theresa DeSalvio, Vykky Ebner, Lorrie Fredette, Diana Godfrey, Walter Kopec, Kate Lawless, Steve Miller, Rachel Pea, Jen Pepper, Kathy Petrillo, Sarah Pfohl, Stephan Phillips, Larry Poole, Maria Rizzo, Mitchell Saller, Radio Sebastian, Kaitlyn Spina, Werner Sun, Ron Throop, Paul Weiner.

New Paintings by Jennissa Hart
Gallery 4040

Gallery 4040
4040 New Court Ave (off Midler), Syracuse

Scholastic Instrumental Jazz Jam
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: $6 regular, $3 participamts
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Come to Jazz Central and get a chance to sit in with the CNYJO rhythm section. Improvisers at ALL levels are welcome, first-timers to emerging pros. Check out our guidelines below, or just show up with your axe, a lead sheet and a key!

These user-friendly events provide a professional rhythm section from the CNY Jazz Orchestra to accompany students of all ages. Although the format is not that of a clinic or master class, the trio may have time to do some coaching while a student is on the bandstand.

Students must sign in and complete a simple form that includes the title and key of their selection or selections. All participants are encouraged to bring family and friends to cheer them on.

Student groups of all kinds also are encouraged to prepare arrangements and perform as a group, either with our rhythm section of self-contained. However, the individuals in each group should also perform individually on at least one tune.

Bach and Bachianas
Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music

Price: $20 regular, $15 senior, $10 student
Lincoln Middle School
1613 James St., Syracuse

.In 1747 Frederick the Great challenged J.S. Bach with a theme that the monarch thought impossible to improvise upon. The astounding result was the Musical Offering. Two centuries later, Heitor Villa-Lobos fused his passion for Bach with his love of native music in his Brazilian "Bach-style" pieces.

Members of Symphoria will be joined by a soprano, tenor and bass to perform this outstanding program, which will be capped by Bach's miniature comic opera about a father who disapproves of his daughter's addiction to coffee. Since the Coffee Cantata was first performed at Zimmermann's Coffee House in Leipzig, and the disapproving father's name translates to "stick in the mud," you can guess whose side Bach is on.

J.S. Bach Crab Canon
J.S. Bach Trio Sonata in C minor BWV 1079 from "The Musical Offering"
J.S. Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 for 8 cellos and soprano
J.S. Bach Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht, BWV 211, "Coffee Cantata"

Not Now, Darling
Central New York Playhouse
Dustin M. Czarny, director

Price: $34.95 dinner theater, $20 show only
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

Tonight's show will be preceded by dinner at 6:45 pm.

The scene is the exclusive London fur salon of Bodley and Crouch, where Crouch (the well-meaning innocent) struggles to keep things on an even keel despite the energetic philandering of his partner. At the moment, Bodley is trying to secure the affections of his latest would-be mistress by "selling" her husband an expensive mink fur coat for a fraction of its real worth, and the stammering Crouch is saddled with the task of consummating the sale with a straight face. But, as luck would have it, the husband seizes the bargain coat as the perfect gift for his own mistress--whereupon the complications burgeon uproariously, with poor Crouch caught in the middle. Suspicious wives, mistaken identities, scantily clad girls clapped hurriedly into closets, and a continuous barrage of rapid-fire jokes all become part of the hilarious doings, as the action of the play bubbles along merrily right up to the final curtain when, miraculously and to the great relief of all concerned, everything somehow manages to work out as it should.

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*SOLD OUT* LAB Series: Dog Sees God
Redhouse
Danielle Melendez, director

Price: $10
Redhouse Lab Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Ever wonder what happened to Charlie Brown, Lucy, Sally, Schroeder and the rest of the Peanuts gang once they hit puberty? Find out in this hilariously twisted production of Dog Sees God, by Bert V. Royal.

Sunday, January 19, 2014

Willson Cummer: Dawn Light
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Willson Cummer is a fine-art photographer, curator and teacher who lives in Fayetteville, NY. Images from his projects have been included in national juried exhibitions. His first solo New York City show opened in December 2011 at OK Harris. Willson's work explores humanity's place in the environment. In addition to his own work, he curates and publishes the blog New Landscape Photography. Willson has taught workshops at Light Work/Community Darkrooms, Syracuse University, and Cazenovia College.

Artist's Statement:

In late July of 2012, a five-month depression unexpectedly lifted. For the first time in a long while, I was able to wake up in the morning with energy, eager to explore the day. With my camera I quickly began shooting the early morning light as it fell upon Fayetteville, NY, my hometown. I walked from my front door most times, and occasionally drove a bit further into the village. I wanted to explore the territory closest at hand.

Light is a fundamental ingredient for photography. It has also, for centuries, been used as a metaphor for healing and recovery. As a recovering depressive, I wanted to explore the dawn light on a metaphorical level. As an artist, I wanted to record the gorgeous cross- light of the early morning and the rich yellow hue of the direct light.

I was attracted to humble structures: gas stations, parking lots, aging commercial buildings. The interplay of the natural world and the built environment is a subject which continues to excite me.

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition features photographs by seniors from the Art Photography Program in the Department of Transmedia, part of SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts. The bachelor of fine arts degree program in art photography is designed for students who plan to use photography as their primary creative medium. Many of these students will go on to exhibit their photographs nationally and work for magazines, advertising agencies, museums, galleries, corporations, educational institutions, and the fashion industry.

Exhibiting students include Marcy Ayres, Erica Bernstein, Paige Blinn, Cami Brown, Emily Edwards, Ashli Fiorini, Meagan Gregg, Krystle Gunter, Emily Hawing, Mark Hoelscher, Shelby Jacobs, Kelly Kazmierczak, Nicole Letson, Colin Liang, Victoria Nadler, Mary O'Brien, Allison Paap, Gabriela Perez, Sahra Roberts, Samantha Short, Amrita Stuetzle, Lilith Tagariello, Rachel Thalia, Ana Thor, Chris Trigaux, Katie Walsh, and Nils Wiklund.

Aspen Mays: Newspaper Rock
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Approaching her art making process like an anthropologist, artist Aspen Mays collects, appropriates and creates objects, information, photographs, ephemera, and artifacts that call into question our limited ability to understand or know the vastness, complexity, and sublime beauty of the physical universe. Her abstract images are made with a variety of photographic processes and are inspired by her passion for and connections within astronomy, prehistoric petroglyphs, anthropology, and science.

Holiday Show
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Show features jewelry, ceramics, photography, painting, and fiber art created by regionally and nationally recognized artists. Participating artists include Karin Bremer, Willson Cummer, Jen Gandee, Henry Gernhardt, Michael Hughes, Marie LoParco, Hannah Meredith, Laurel Moranz, Jessica Pilowa, Lily Tsay, Lucie Wellner, and Errol Willett.

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role that handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit. Many fine art and craft artists currently have work on display at the gallery shop. New holiday cards, ornaments, and many gift items fill the space.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Fashion After Five
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit, Fashion After Five, curated by Syracuse University's Jeffrey Mayer, associate professor of fashion design and history and curator of the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, will explore the history of the cocktail dress with several spectacular garments from the collections of OHA and the Sue Ann Genet Collection. Also represented in the exhibit will be the work of students from the S.U. Department of Fashion Design who will present their own creations, inspired by the vintage dresses selected for the exhibition—a perfect way to combine the past and the present for this exciting new exhibit.

Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit will feature oil and watercolor paintings, photographs, drawings and prints of contemporary or vintage winter scenes of Onondaga County.

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Highlighting the breadth of the collections' encyclopedic holdings and exploring international artists and themes, these new displays explore the genres of photography, prints, paintings and sculpture. Two of the exhibitions on display in the Print and Photo Study Galleries will highlight the University's vast holdings of historical Japanese photographs and prints. The third exhibition will examine artwork created by international artists who have immigrated to the United States.

America's Calling, presented in the Gallery of American Art, is an exhibition of 16 works of art by 15 foreign-born artists, including Ben Shahn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Josef Albers. The artists included in the exhibition, or their families, were drawn to the United States because it offered opportunities unavailable in their homelands. A variety of media is presented in the display, including painting, ceramics, sculpture and printmaking that are handled using often innovative techniques. Cumulatively, these artists had a profound and permanent effect on the evolution of American art.

The Photo Study Room will present Visions for Sale: Photographs of Nineteenth Century Japan, an exhibition of 22 hand-colored albumen prints from the 19th century exploring the country's people, land and environment that was quickly changing due to modernization. European photographers such as Felice Beato and Baron Raimond Stillfield traveled to Japan to document the nation's exotic landscape and historically idiosyncratic jobs before they were swept away by the tide of modernism.

Ukiyo-e to Shin Hanga: Japanese Woodcuts from the Syracuse University Art Collection will be installed in the Print Study Room and draws from the University's collection of over 300 examples from this important and hugely influential art movement. The prints on view date from the height of color Ukiyo-e printmaking (c1780-1868) through Japan's Meiji period (1868-1912) to 20th century impressions of the Shin Hanga movement (1915-1940s). Masters of this medium are represented, including the work of Utamaro, Kuniyoshi, Hokusai, Hiroshida, Tsuchiya Koitsu and Yoshida Hiroshi. The prints exemplify the soft, painterly style that is synonymous with the Japanese woodcut, and illustrates the wide range of subjects from courtesans to Kabuki theater and the Japanese landscape.

The Art of Video Games
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, $5 Everson members, $30 family (up to 2 adults & 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Part of a ten-city national tour, "The Art of Video Games" is one of the first major exhibitions to explore the 40-year evolution of video games as an artistic medium, with a focus on striking graphics, creative storytelling, and player interactivity. The exhibition features some of the most influential artists and designers across five eras of game development, from early pioneers to contemporary designers. Video games use player participation to tell stories and engage audiences. In the same way as film, animation and performance, video games are a compelling and influential form of narrative art.

"The Art of Video Games" focuses on the interplay of graphics, technology and storytelling through some of the best games for 20 gaming systems ranging from the Atari VCS to the PlayStation 3. The exhibition features 80 video games that demonstrate the evolution of the medium. The games are presented through still images and video footage. In addition, the galleries include video interviews with developers and artists, historic game consoles and large prints of in-game screen shots.

New technologies allow designers to create increasingly interactive and sophisticated game environments while staying grounded in traditional game types. Five featured games, one from each era, are available in the exhibition galleries for visitors to play for a few minutes, to gain some feel for the interactivity. The playable gamesPac-Man, Super Mario Brothers, The Secret of Monkey Island, Myst and Flowershow how players interact with the virtual worlds, highlighting innovative new techniques that set the standard for many subsequent games.

Visitors to the exhibition are greeted by excerpts from selected games projected 12 feet high, accompanied by a chipmusic soundtrack by 8 Bit Weapon and ComputeHer, including "The Art of Video Games Anthem" recorded by 8 Bit Weapon specifically for the exhibition. These multimedia elements convey the excitement and complexity of the featured video games. An interior gallery includes a series of short videos showing the range of emotional responses players have while interacting with games. Excerpts from interviews with 20 influential figures in the gaming world also are presented in the galleries.

Read a review!

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

New Paintings by Jennissa Hart
Gallery 4040

Gallery 4040
4040 New Court Ave (off Midler), Syracuse

Live at the Everson: An Afternoon of American Song
Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring Kathleen Roland, soprano; Daniel Faltus, piano

Price: $15
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Music by Copland, Ives, Barber, Gordon, Bolcom, and Weill.

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Not Now, Darling
Central New York Playhouse
Dustin M. Czarny, director

Price: $15
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

The scene is the exclusive London fur salon of Bodley and Crouch, where Crouch (the well-meaning innocent) struggles to keep things on an even keel despite the energetic philandering of his partner. At the moment, Bodley is trying to secure the affections of his latest would-be mistress by "selling" her husband an expensive mink fur coat for a fraction of its real worth, and the stammering Crouch is saddled with the task of consummating the sale with a straight face. But, as luck would have it, the husband seizes the bargain coat as the perfect gift for his own mistress--whereupon the complications burgeon uproariously, with poor Crouch caught in the middle. Suspicious wives, mistaken identities, scantily clad girls clapped hurriedly into closets, and a continuous barrage of rapid-fire jokes all become part of the hilarious doings, as the action of the play bubbles along merrily right up to the final curtain when, miraculously and to the great relief of all concerned, everything somehow manages to work out as it should.

Read a Review!

*SOLD OUT* LAB Series: Dog Sees God
Redhouse
Danielle Melendez, director

Price: $10
Redhouse Lab Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Ever wonder what happened to Charlie Brown, Lucy, Sally, Schroeder and the rest of the Peanuts gang once they hit puberty? Find out in this hilariously twisted production of Dog Sees God, by Bert V. Royal.

Monday, January 20, 2014

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition features photographs by seniors from the Art Photography Program in the Department of Transmedia, part of SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts. The bachelor of fine arts degree program in art photography is designed for students who plan to use photography as their primary creative medium. Many of these students will go on to exhibit their photographs nationally and work for magazines, advertising agencies, museums, galleries, corporations, educational institutions, and the fashion industry.

Exhibiting students include Marcy Ayres, Erica Bernstein, Paige Blinn, Cami Brown, Emily Edwards, Ashli Fiorini, Meagan Gregg, Krystle Gunter, Emily Hawing, Mark Hoelscher, Shelby Jacobs, Kelly Kazmierczak, Nicole Letson, Colin Liang, Victoria Nadler, Mary O'Brien, Allison Paap, Gabriela Perez, Sahra Roberts, Samantha Short, Amrita Stuetzle, Lilith Tagariello, Rachel Thalia, Ana Thor, Chris Trigaux, Katie Walsh, and Nils Wiklund.

Willson Cummer: Dawn Light
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Willson Cummer is a fine-art photographer, curator and teacher who lives in Fayetteville, NY. Images from his projects have been included in national juried exhibitions. His first solo New York City show opened in December 2011 at OK Harris. Willson's work explores humanity's place in the environment. In addition to his own work, he curates and publishes the blog New Landscape Photography. Willson has taught workshops at Light Work/Community Darkrooms, Syracuse University, and Cazenovia College.

Artist's Statement:

In late July of 2012, a five-month depression unexpectedly lifted. For the first time in a long while, I was able to wake up in the morning with energy, eager to explore the day. With my camera I quickly began shooting the early morning light as it fell upon Fayetteville, NY, my hometown. I walked from my front door most times, and occasionally drove a bit further into the village. I wanted to explore the territory closest at hand.

Light is a fundamental ingredient for photography. It has also, for centuries, been used as a metaphor for healing and recovery. As a recovering depressive, I wanted to explore the dawn light on a metaphorical level. As an artist, I wanted to record the gorgeous cross- light of the early morning and the rich yellow hue of the direct light.

I was attracted to humble structures: gas stations, parking lots, aging commercial buildings. The interplay of the natural world and the built environment is a subject which continues to excite me.

Aspen Mays: Newspaper Rock
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Approaching her art making process like an anthropologist, artist Aspen Mays collects, appropriates and creates objects, information, photographs, ephemera, and artifacts that call into question our limited ability to understand or know the vastness, complexity, and sublime beauty of the physical universe. Her abstract images are made with a variety of photographic processes and are inspired by her passion for and connections within astronomy, prehistoric petroglyphs, anthropology, and science.

Petals in Winter: Photography by A.E. Andre
Maxwell Memorial Library

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

The exhibit features black-and-white, color, and colorized photographs of Sonnenberg Gardens in Canandaigua and other nature scenes. "Sonnenberg Gardens is one of the most wonderful places in New York State," says Andre, "and it has definitely inspired my own gardens as well. I want to show these pictures during our cold, snowy season to remind people of the beauty there is in the spring."

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Gallery Exhibit: Meredith Cantor-Feller, Model American
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist Statement:
As an observer and artist I get my inspiration from the varied experiences of living and life. Using the mediums of photography and video allows me to put myself, if only briefly, into the experience of my subjects. Borrowing the still-life, snap-shots or momentary records of their lives. At times my subjects are aware of me and my camera yet there often remains a strong sense of invading of publicly private moments. I use these ready-made observations as the foundation for my questions about the living experience.

"Model American" is a working series of environmental portraits that examine the conflict of consumer expectations, behaviors and economics. This series features the employees of commonplace consumer environments posing as "Model Americans". The combination of environment and prop narrates the conflict between consumer want and human need, and the friction between consumer and citizen driving the Model American engine.

John James Audubon and the American Landscape
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

John James Audubon and the American Landscape showcases Syracuse University's copy of the rare double elephant folio The Birds of America. Printed in London and Edinburgh between 1827 and 1838, the work is a stunning visual catalog, featuring 435 plates depicting American bird life. The enterprise consumed much of Audubon's adult life and took him from the Pennsylvania woods to the Florida Keys and the Labrador coast. To its 19th-century audience, The Birds of America was much more than an ornithological inventory. It brought the exotic American wilderness into the drawing rooms and parlors of its wealthy subscribers. In 1896, former mayor of Syracuse and Syracuse University trustee James J. Welden donated a copy to the University. Today, The Birds of America is known for its extraordinary value, fetching more than ten million dollars at auction.

The exhibition situates The Birds of America in the wider contexts of Audubon's life, 19th-century scientific knowledge, and a rapidly changing landscape that was becoming less exotic each day. Also on display are Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology (1808–14), Audubon's textual companion to The Birds of America (Ornithological Biography, 1831–49), and later volumes that speak to Audubon's legacy, such as first editions of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) and Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (1949). Syracuse University's copy of The Birds of America is disbound, which makes it possible for visitors to the exhibition to consider several different prints at once. Some of the engravings on display include the barn owl, Swainson's hawk, and the long-billed curlew, all of which depict American avian life against the backdrop of encroaching civilization.

Crystal Glow
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Karen Kosicki: infrared photography
Max Block: dichroic fused glass jewelry and objects d'art
Mary Giehl: crystal sculpture grown from alum, and mixed media wall hangings featuring crochet elements

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Philipe Doddard: The Idea of Modernity in Haitian Contemporary Art
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Through bold brush strokes and vibrant color combinations, graphic and visual artist Philippe Dodard critically engages and empowers audiences throughout the world. Dodard, born and raised in Haiti, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Port-au-Prince and the International School of Bordeaux, France, where he explored graphic design. Although paintings are featured in this exhibition, Dodard is a diverse artist whose body of work includes metalwork, large sculptures and jewelry. Dodard's incredible talent has resulted in international recognition and creative collaborations including his most recent with fashion designer Donna Karan. Irrespective of the discipline or media, Dodard's aesthetic reflects his love for Haiti.

Read a review!

Aspen Mays: Newspaper Rock
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Approaching her art making process like an anthropologist, artist Aspen Mays collects, appropriates and creates objects, information, photographs, ephemera, and artifacts that call into question our limited ability to understand or know the vastness, complexity, and sublime beauty of the physical universe. Her abstract images are made with a variety of photographic processes and are inspired by her passion for and connections within astronomy, prehistoric petroglyphs, anthropology, and science.

Willson Cummer: Dawn Light
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Willson Cummer is a fine-art photographer, curator and teacher who lives in Fayetteville, NY. Images from his projects have been included in national juried exhibitions. His first solo New York City show opened in December 2011 at OK Harris. Willson's work explores humanity's place in the environment. In addition to his own work, he curates and publishes the blog New Landscape Photography. Willson has taught workshops at Light Work/Community Darkrooms, Syracuse University, and Cazenovia College.

Artist's Statement:

In late July of 2012, a five-month depression unexpectedly lifted. For the first time in a long while, I was able to wake up in the morning with energy, eager to explore the day. With my camera I quickly began shooting the early morning light as it fell upon Fayetteville, NY, my hometown. I walked from my front door most times, and occasionally drove a bit further into the village. I wanted to explore the territory closest at hand.

Light is a fundamental ingredient for photography. It has also, for centuries, been used as a metaphor for healing and recovery. As a recovering depressive, I wanted to explore the dawn light on a metaphorical level. As an artist, I wanted to record the gorgeous cross- light of the early morning and the rich yellow hue of the direct light.

I was attracted to humble structures: gas stations, parking lots, aging commercial buildings. The interplay of the natural world and the built environment is a subject which continues to excite me.

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition features photographs by seniors from the Art Photography Program in the Department of Transmedia, part of SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts. The bachelor of fine arts degree program in art photography is designed for students who plan to use photography as their primary creative medium. Many of these students will go on to exhibit their photographs nationally and work for magazines, advertising agencies, museums, galleries, corporations, educational institutions, and the fashion industry.

Exhibiting students include Marcy Ayres, Erica Bernstein, Paige Blinn, Cami Brown, Emily Edwards, Ashli Fiorini, Meagan Gregg, Krystle Gunter, Emily Hawing, Mark Hoelscher, Shelby Jacobs, Kelly Kazmierczak, Nicole Letson, Colin Liang, Victoria Nadler, Mary O'Brien, Allison Paap, Gabriela Perez, Sahra Roberts, Samantha Short, Amrita Stuetzle, Lilith Tagariello, Rachel Thalia, Ana Thor, Chris Trigaux, Katie Walsh, and Nils Wiklund.

Petals in Winter: Photography by A.E. Andre
Maxwell Memorial Library

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

The exhibit features black-and-white, color, and colorized photographs of Sonnenberg Gardens in Canandaigua and other nature scenes. "Sonnenberg Gardens is one of the most wonderful places in New York State," says Andre, "and it has definitely inspired my own gardens as well. I want to show these pictures during our cold, snowy season to remind people of the beauty there is in the spring."

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Highlighting the breadth of the collections' encyclopedic holdings and exploring international artists and themes, these new displays explore the genres of photography, prints, paintings and sculpture. Two of the exhibitions on display in the Print and Photo Study Galleries will highlight the University's vast holdings of historical Japanese photographs and prints. The third exhibition will examine artwork created by international artists who have immigrated to the United States.

America's Calling, presented in the Gallery of American Art, is an exhibition of 16 works of art by 15 foreign-born artists, including Ben Shahn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Josef Albers. The artists included in the exhibition, or their families, were drawn to the United States because it offered opportunities unavailable in their homelands. A variety of media is presented in the display, including painting, ceramics, sculpture and printmaking that are handled using often innovative techniques. Cumulatively, these artists had a profound and permanent effect on the evolution of American art.

The Photo Study Room will present Visions for Sale: Photographs of Nineteenth Century Japan, an exhibition of 22 hand-colored albumen prints from the 19th century exploring the country's people, land and environment that was quickly changing due to modernization. European photographers such as Felice Beato and Baron Raimond Stillfield traveled to Japan to document the nation's exotic landscape and historically idiosyncratic jobs before they were swept away by the tide of modernism.

Ukiyo-e to Shin Hanga: Japanese Woodcuts from the Syracuse University Art Collection will be installed in the Print Study Room and draws from the University's collection of over 300 examples from this important and hugely influential art movement. The prints on view date from the height of color Ukiyo-e printmaking (c1780-1868) through Japan's Meiji period (1868-1912) to 20th century impressions of the Shin Hanga movement (1915-1940s). Masters of this medium are represented, including the work of Utamaro, Kuniyoshi, Hokusai, Hiroshida, Tsuchiya Koitsu and Yoshida Hiroshi. The prints exemplify the soft, painterly style that is synonymous with the Japanese woodcut, and illustrates the wide range of subjects from courtesans to Kabuki theater and the Japanese landscape.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Domestic Vicissitudes: Works by Analia Segal
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Comprised of both a site-specific installation and a large scale video projection, this exhibition navigates the porous boundaries between art, design and architecture intertwining the conceptual, aesthetic and functional nature of the objects that compose the everyday scenarios we live in.

Argentina-born Analia Segalis a Guggenheim Fellow, and has received grants that include: Pollock Krassner Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, Fundación Konex, Fundación Antorchas, Bienal de Diseño-Universidad de Buenos Aires, and 100% Design. Her works has been exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally, as well as published in specialized magazines, catalogues and books, and it is included in private and public collections. She graduated as a Graphic Designer from the University of Buenos Aires and received her Masters Degree in Art from New York University. She lives and works in New York City since 1999.

Cinemagogue: Numbered
Temple Society of Concord

Temple Society of Concord
910 Madison St., Syracuse

This film deals with how different Holocaust survivors and family members deal with the serialized numbers the Nazis had tattooed on people's forearms in the camps. To some it is something to be ashamed of, while others view the number as a medal of survival. The documentary also reveals a startling trend that has developed over the past few years: the phenomenon of survivors' children and grandchildren tattooing themselves with a loved one's number to honor their legacy and to remind younger generations about the Holocaust.

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Gallery Exhibit: Meredith Cantor-Feller, Model American
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist Statement:
As an observer and artist I get my inspiration from the varied experiences of living and life. Using the mediums of photography and video allows me to put myself, if only briefly, into the experience of my subjects. Borrowing the still-life, snap-shots or momentary records of their lives. At times my subjects are aware of me and my camera yet there often remains a strong sense of invading of publicly private moments. I use these ready-made observations as the foundation for my questions about the living experience.

"Model American" is a working series of environmental portraits that examine the conflict of consumer expectations, behaviors and economics. This series features the employees of commonplace consumer environments posing as "Model Americans". The combination of environment and prop narrates the conflict between consumer want and human need, and the friction between consumer and citizen driving the Model American engine.

John James Audubon and the American Landscape
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

John James Audubon and the American Landscape showcases Syracuse University's copy of the rare double elephant folio The Birds of America. Printed in London and Edinburgh between 1827 and 1838, the work is a stunning visual catalog, featuring 435 plates depicting American bird life. The enterprise consumed much of Audubon's adult life and took him from the Pennsylvania woods to the Florida Keys and the Labrador coast. To its 19th-century audience, The Birds of America was much more than an ornithological inventory. It brought the exotic American wilderness into the drawing rooms and parlors of its wealthy subscribers. In 1896, former mayor of Syracuse and Syracuse University trustee James J. Welden donated a copy to the University. Today, The Birds of America is known for its extraordinary value, fetching more than ten million dollars at auction.

The exhibition situates The Birds of America in the wider contexts of Audubon's life, 19th-century scientific knowledge, and a rapidly changing landscape that was becoming less exotic each day. Also on display are Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology (1808–14), Audubon's textual companion to The Birds of America (Ornithological Biography, 1831–49), and later volumes that speak to Audubon's legacy, such as first editions of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) and Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (1949). Syracuse University's copy of The Birds of America is disbound, which makes it possible for visitors to the exhibition to consider several different prints at once. Some of the engravings on display include the barn owl, Swainson's hawk, and the long-billed curlew, all of which depict American avian life against the backdrop of encroaching civilization.

Crystal Glow
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Karen Kosicki: infrared photography
Max Block: dichroic fused glass jewelry and objects d'art
Mary Giehl: crystal sculpture grown from alum, and mixed media wall hangings featuring crochet elements

Read a review!

Philipe Doddard: The Idea of Modernity in Haitian Contemporary Art
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Through bold brush strokes and vibrant color combinations, graphic and visual artist Philippe Dodard critically engages and empowers audiences throughout the world. Dodard, born and raised in Haiti, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Port-au-Prince and the International School of Bordeaux, France, where he explored graphic design. Although paintings are featured in this exhibition, Dodard is a diverse artist whose body of work includes metalwork, large sculptures and jewelry. Dodard's incredible talent has resulted in international recognition and creative collaborations including his most recent with fashion designer Donna Karan. Irrespective of the discipline or media, Dodard's aesthetic reflects his love for Haiti.

Read a review!

Aspen Mays: Newspaper Rock
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Approaching her art making process like an anthropologist, artist Aspen Mays collects, appropriates and creates objects, information, photographs, ephemera, and artifacts that call into question our limited ability to understand or know the vastness, complexity, and sublime beauty of the physical universe. Her abstract images are made with a variety of photographic processes and are inspired by her passion for and connections within astronomy, prehistoric petroglyphs, anthropology, and science.

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition features photographs by seniors from the Art Photography Program in the Department of Transmedia, part of SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts. The bachelor of fine arts degree program in art photography is designed for students who plan to use photography as their primary creative medium. Many of these students will go on to exhibit their photographs nationally and work for magazines, advertising agencies, museums, galleries, corporations, educational institutions, and the fashion industry.

Exhibiting students include Marcy Ayres, Erica Bernstein, Paige Blinn, Cami Brown, Emily Edwards, Ashli Fiorini, Meagan Gregg, Krystle Gunter, Emily Hawing, Mark Hoelscher, Shelby Jacobs, Kelly Kazmierczak, Nicole Letson, Colin Liang, Victoria Nadler, Mary O'Brien, Allison Paap, Gabriela Perez, Sahra Roberts, Samantha Short, Amrita Stuetzle, Lilith Tagariello, Rachel Thalia, Ana Thor, Chris Trigaux, Katie Walsh, and Nils Wiklund.

Willson Cummer: Dawn Light
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Willson Cummer is a fine-art photographer, curator and teacher who lives in Fayetteville, NY. Images from his projects have been included in national juried exhibitions. His first solo New York City show opened in December 2011 at OK Harris. Willson's work explores humanity's place in the environment. In addition to his own work, he curates and publishes the blog New Landscape Photography. Willson has taught workshops at Light Work/Community Darkrooms, Syracuse University, and Cazenovia College.

Artist's Statement:

In late July of 2012, a five-month depression unexpectedly lifted. For the first time in a long while, I was able to wake up in the morning with energy, eager to explore the day. With my camera I quickly began shooting the early morning light as it fell upon Fayetteville, NY, my hometown. I walked from my front door most times, and occasionally drove a bit further into the village. I wanted to explore the territory closest at hand.

Light is a fundamental ingredient for photography. It has also, for centuries, been used as a metaphor for healing and recovery. As a recovering depressive, I wanted to explore the dawn light on a metaphorical level. As an artist, I wanted to record the gorgeous cross- light of the early morning and the rich yellow hue of the direct light.

I was attracted to humble structures: gas stations, parking lots, aging commercial buildings. The interplay of the natural world and the built environment is a subject which continues to excite me.

Petals in Winter: Photography by A.E. Andre
Maxwell Memorial Library

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

The exhibit features black-and-white, color, and colorized photographs of Sonnenberg Gardens in Canandaigua and other nature scenes. "Sonnenberg Gardens is one of the most wonderful places in New York State," says Andre, "and it has definitely inspired my own gardens as well. I want to show these pictures during our cold, snowy season to remind people of the beauty there is in the spring."

Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit will feature oil and watercolor paintings, photographs, drawings and prints of contemporary or vintage winter scenes of Onondaga County.

Fashion After Five
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit, Fashion After Five, curated by Syracuse University's Jeffrey Mayer, associate professor of fashion design and history and curator of the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, will explore the history of the cocktail dress with several spectacular garments from the collections of OHA and the Sue Ann Genet Collection. Also represented in the exhibit will be the work of students from the S.U. Department of Fashion Design who will present their own creations, inspired by the vintage dresses selected for the exhibition—a perfect way to combine the past and the present for this exciting new exhibit.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Highlighting the breadth of the collections' encyclopedic holdings and exploring international artists and themes, these new displays explore the genres of photography, prints, paintings and sculpture. Two of the exhibitions on display in the Print and Photo Study Galleries will highlight the University's vast holdings of historical Japanese photographs and prints. The third exhibition will examine artwork created by international artists who have immigrated to the United States.

America's Calling, presented in the Gallery of American Art, is an exhibition of 16 works of art by 15 foreign-born artists, including Ben Shahn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Josef Albers. The artists included in the exhibition, or their families, were drawn to the United States because it offered opportunities unavailable in their homelands. A variety of media is presented in the display, including painting, ceramics, sculpture and printmaking that are handled using often innovative techniques. Cumulatively, these artists had a profound and permanent effect on the evolution of American art.

The Photo Study Room will present Visions for Sale: Photographs of Nineteenth Century Japan, an exhibition of 22 hand-colored albumen prints from the 19th century exploring the country's people, land and environment that was quickly changing due to modernization. European photographers such as Felice Beato and Baron Raimond Stillfield traveled to Japan to document the nation's exotic landscape and historically idiosyncratic jobs before they were swept away by the tide of modernism.

Ukiyo-e to Shin Hanga: Japanese Woodcuts from the Syracuse University Art Collection will be installed in the Print Study Room and draws from the University's collection of over 300 examples from this important and hugely influential art movement. The prints on view date from the height of color Ukiyo-e printmaking (c1780-1868) through Japan's Meiji period (1868-1912) to 20th century impressions of the Shin Hanga movement (1915-1940s). Masters of this medium are represented, including the work of Utamaro, Kuniyoshi, Hokusai, Hiroshida, Tsuchiya Koitsu and Yoshida Hiroshi. The prints exemplify the soft, painterly style that is synonymous with the Japanese woodcut, and illustrates the wide range of subjects from courtesans to Kabuki theater and the Japanese landscape.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Domestic Vicissitudes: Works by Analia Segal
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Comprised of both a site-specific installation and a large scale video projection, this exhibition navigates the porous boundaries between art, design and architecture intertwining the conceptual, aesthetic and functional nature of the objects that compose the everyday scenarios we live in.

Argentina-born Analia Segalis a Guggenheim Fellow, and has received grants that include: Pollock Krassner Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, Fundación Konex, Fundación Antorchas, Bienal de Diseño-Universidad de Buenos Aires, and 100% Design. Her works has been exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally, as well as published in specialized magazines, catalogues and books, and it is included in private and public collections. She graduated as a Graphic Designer from the University of Buenos Aires and received her Masters Degree in Art from New York University. She lives and works in New York City since 1999.

Vein 8: Stone Canoe Exhibition
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Stone Canoe, A Journal of Arts, Literature and Social Commentary, is published annually by University College of Syracuse University. The prize-winning journal, now in its 8th year, is committed to communicating to the world at large the depth and diversity of the Upstate New York arts community, and each issue features a provocative mix of artists and writers, both well-known and emerging, with ties to the region. The journal's name is inspired by the oldest recorded Upstate New York story, the journey of the Peacemaker in his sacred canoe of stone from Lake Ontario to the Finger Lakes, where he brought the resident warring tribes together to form the Iroquois Confederacy. Each year, the journal's prize-winning writers and artists are presented with an original stone canoe carving by noted Native American sculptor Tom Huff. The current journal, Stone Canoe Number 8, features the work of 24 artists chosen by 2014 arts editor Melora Griffis.

Participating artists include Doug Baird, Stephanie Barkley, Megan Biddle, Francis Clemente, Theresa DeSalvio, Vykky Ebner, Lorrie Fredette, Diana Godfrey, Walter Kopec, Kate Lawless, Steve Miller, Rachel Pea, Jen Pepper, Kathy Petrillo, Sarah Pfohl, Stephan Phillips, Larry Poole, Maria Rizzo, Mitchell Saller, Radio Sebastian, Kaitlyn Spina, Werner Sun, Ron Throop, Paul Weiner.

Mary Rose Go and Mary Molner, sopranos
Civic Morning Musicals

Price: Free
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Mary Rose Go, soprano, and Ida Trebicka, piano, will perform songs by Listz, Strauss, and Mozart.

Mary Molner, soprano; Scott Bullock, piano; and Victoria Bullock Krukowski, clarinet, will play songs by Schubert.

Preview: Next to Normal
Redhouse

Price: $15
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Next To Normal tells the story of a mother, Diane Goodman, who struggles with bipolar disorder and the effect that her illness has on her family. This contemporary musical with an unforgettable score is an emotional powerhouse that addresses such issues as grieving a loss, ethics in modern psychiatry, and suburban life. Book and lyrics by Brin Yorkey, music by Tom Kitt.

These performances include a Talkback Series after the show.

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Thursday, January 23, 2014

Gallery Exhibit: Meredith Cantor-Feller, Model American
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist Statement:
As an observer and artist I get my inspiration from the varied experiences of living and life. Using the mediums of photography and video allows me to put myself, if only briefly, into the experience of my subjects. Borrowing the still-life, snap-shots or momentary records of their lives. At times my subjects are aware of me and my camera yet there often remains a strong sense of invading of publicly private moments. I use these ready-made observations as the foundation for my questions about the living experience.

"Model American" is a working series of environmental portraits that examine the conflict of consumer expectations, behaviors and economics. This series features the employees of commonplace consumer environments posing as "Model Americans". The combination of environment and prop narrates the conflict between consumer want and human need, and the friction between consumer and citizen driving the Model American engine.

John James Audubon and the American Landscape
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

John James Audubon and the American Landscape showcases Syracuse University's copy of the rare double elephant folio The Birds of America. Printed in London and Edinburgh between 1827 and 1838, the work is a stunning visual catalog, featuring 435 plates depicting American bird life. The enterprise consumed much of Audubon's adult life and took him from the Pennsylvania woods to the Florida Keys and the Labrador coast. To its 19th-century audience, The Birds of America was much more than an ornithological inventory. It brought the exotic American wilderness into the drawing rooms and parlors of its wealthy subscribers. In 1896, former mayor of Syracuse and Syracuse University trustee James J. Welden donated a copy to the University. Today, The Birds of America is known for its extraordinary value, fetching more than ten million dollars at auction.

The exhibition situates The Birds of America in the wider contexts of Audubon's life, 19th-century scientific knowledge, and a rapidly changing landscape that was becoming less exotic each day. Also on display are Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology (1808–14), Audubon's textual companion to The Birds of America (Ornithological Biography, 1831–49), and later volumes that speak to Audubon's legacy, such as first editions of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) and Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (1949). Syracuse University's copy of The Birds of America is disbound, which makes it possible for visitors to the exhibition to consider several different prints at once. Some of the engravings on display include the barn owl, Swainson's hawk, and the long-billed curlew, all of which depict American avian life against the backdrop of encroaching civilization.

Crystal Glow
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Karen Kosicki: infrared photography
Max Block: dichroic fused glass jewelry and objects d'art
Mary Giehl: crystal sculpture grown from alum, and mixed media wall hangings featuring crochet elements

Read a review!

Philipe Doddard: The Idea of Modernity in Haitian Contemporary Art
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Through bold brush strokes and vibrant color combinations, graphic and visual artist Philippe Dodard critically engages and empowers audiences throughout the world. Dodard, born and raised in Haiti, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Port-au-Prince and the International School of Bordeaux, France, where he explored graphic design. Although paintings are featured in this exhibition, Dodard is a diverse artist whose body of work includes metalwork, large sculptures and jewelry. Dodard's incredible talent has resulted in international recognition and creative collaborations including his most recent with fashion designer Donna Karan. Irrespective of the discipline or media, Dodard's aesthetic reflects his love for Haiti.

Read a review!

Aspen Mays: Newspaper Rock
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Approaching her art making process like an anthropologist, artist Aspen Mays collects, appropriates and creates objects, information, photographs, ephemera, and artifacts that call into question our limited ability to understand or know the vastness, complexity, and sublime beauty of the physical universe. Her abstract images are made with a variety of photographic processes and are inspired by her passion for and connections within astronomy, prehistoric petroglyphs, anthropology, and science.

Willson Cummer: Dawn Light
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Willson Cummer is a fine-art photographer, curator and teacher who lives in Fayetteville, NY. Images from his projects have been included in national juried exhibitions. His first solo New York City show opened in December 2011 at OK Harris. Willson's work explores humanity's place in the environment. In addition to his own work, he curates and publishes the blog New Landscape Photography. Willson has taught workshops at Light Work/Community Darkrooms, Syracuse University, and Cazenovia College.

Artist's Statement:

In late July of 2012, a five-month depression unexpectedly lifted. For the first time in a long while, I was able to wake up in the morning with energy, eager to explore the day. With my camera I quickly began shooting the early morning light as it fell upon Fayetteville, NY, my hometown. I walked from my front door most times, and occasionally drove a bit further into the village. I wanted to explore the territory closest at hand.

Light is a fundamental ingredient for photography. It has also, for centuries, been used as a metaphor for healing and recovery. As a recovering depressive, I wanted to explore the dawn light on a metaphorical level. As an artist, I wanted to record the gorgeous cross- light of the early morning and the rich yellow hue of the direct light.

I was attracted to humble structures: gas stations, parking lots, aging commercial buildings. The interplay of the natural world and the built environment is a subject which continues to excite me.

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition features photographs by seniors from the Art Photography Program in the Department of Transmedia, part of SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts. The bachelor of fine arts degree program in art photography is designed for students who plan to use photography as their primary creative medium. Many of these students will go on to exhibit their photographs nationally and work for magazines, advertising agencies, museums, galleries, corporations, educational institutions, and the fashion industry.

Exhibiting students include Marcy Ayres, Erica Bernstein, Paige Blinn, Cami Brown, Emily Edwards, Ashli Fiorini, Meagan Gregg, Krystle Gunter, Emily Hawing, Mark Hoelscher, Shelby Jacobs, Kelly Kazmierczak, Nicole Letson, Colin Liang, Victoria Nadler, Mary O'Brien, Allison Paap, Gabriela Perez, Sahra Roberts, Samantha Short, Amrita Stuetzle, Lilith Tagariello, Rachel Thalia, Ana Thor, Chris Trigaux, Katie Walsh, and Nils Wiklund.

Petals in Winter: Photography by A.E. Andre
Maxwell Memorial Library

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

The exhibit features black-and-white, color, and colorized photographs of Sonnenberg Gardens in Canandaigua and other nature scenes. "Sonnenberg Gardens is one of the most wonderful places in New York State," says Andre, "and it has definitely inspired my own gardens as well. I want to show these pictures during our cold, snowy season to remind people of the beauty there is in the spring."

Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit will feature oil and watercolor paintings, photographs, drawings and prints of contemporary or vintage winter scenes of Onondaga County.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Fashion After Five
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit, Fashion After Five, curated by Syracuse University's Jeffrey Mayer, associate professor of fashion design and history and curator of the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, will explore the history of the cocktail dress with several spectacular garments from the collections of OHA and the Sue Ann Genet Collection. Also represented in the exhibit will be the work of students from the S.U. Department of Fashion Design who will present their own creations, inspired by the vintage dresses selected for the exhibition—a perfect way to combine the past and the present for this exciting new exhibit.

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Highlighting the breadth of the collections' encyclopedic holdings and exploring international artists and themes, these new displays explore the genres of photography, prints, paintings and sculpture. Two of the exhibitions on display in the Print and Photo Study Galleries will highlight the University's vast holdings of historical Japanese photographs and prints. The third exhibition will examine artwork created by international artists who have immigrated to the United States.

America's Calling, presented in the Gallery of American Art, is an exhibition of 16 works of art by 15 foreign-born artists, including Ben Shahn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Josef Albers. The artists included in the exhibition, or their families, were drawn to the United States because it offered opportunities unavailable in their homelands. A variety of media is presented in the display, including painting, ceramics, sculpture and printmaking that are handled using often innovative techniques. Cumulatively, these artists had a profound and permanent effect on the evolution of American art.

The Photo Study Room will present Visions for Sale: Photographs of Nineteenth Century Japan, an exhibition of 22 hand-colored albumen prints from the 19th century exploring the country's people, land and environment that was quickly changing due to modernization. European photographers such as Felice Beato and Baron Raimond Stillfield traveled to Japan to document the nation's exotic landscape and historically idiosyncratic jobs before they were swept away by the tide of modernism.

Ukiyo-e to Shin Hanga: Japanese Woodcuts from the Syracuse University Art Collection will be installed in the Print Study Room and draws from the University's collection of over 300 examples from this important and hugely influential art movement. The prints on view date from the height of color Ukiyo-e printmaking (c1780-1868) through Japan's Meiji period (1868-1912) to 20th century impressions of the Shin Hanga movement (1915-1940s). Masters of this medium are represented, including the work of Utamaro, Kuniyoshi, Hokusai, Hiroshida, Tsuchiya Koitsu and Yoshida Hiroshi. The prints exemplify the soft, painterly style that is synonymous with the Japanese woodcut, and illustrates the wide range of subjects from courtesans to Kabuki theater and the Japanese landscape.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Domestic Vicissitudes: Works by Analia Segal
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Comprised of both a site-specific installation and a large scale video projection, this exhibition navigates the porous boundaries between art, design and architecture intertwining the conceptual, aesthetic and functional nature of the objects that compose the everyday scenarios we live in.

Argentina-born Analia Segalis a Guggenheim Fellow, and has received grants that include: Pollock Krassner Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, Fundación Konex, Fundación Antorchas, Bienal de Diseño-Universidad de Buenos Aires, and 100% Design. Her works has been exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally, as well as published in specialized magazines, catalogues and books, and it is included in private and public collections. She graduated as a Graphic Designer from the University of Buenos Aires and received her Masters Degree in Art from New York University. She lives and works in New York City since 1999.

Vein 8: Stone Canoe Exhibition
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Stone Canoe, A Journal of Arts, Literature and Social Commentary, is published annually by University College of Syracuse University. The prize-winning journal, now in its 8th year, is committed to communicating to the world at large the depth and diversity of the Upstate New York arts community, and each issue features a provocative mix of artists and writers, both well-known and emerging, with ties to the region. The journal's name is inspired by the oldest recorded Upstate New York story, the journey of the Peacemaker in his sacred canoe of stone from Lake Ontario to the Finger Lakes, where he brought the resident warring tribes together to form the Iroquois Confederacy. Each year, the journal's prize-winning writers and artists are presented with an original stone canoe carving by noted Native American sculptor Tom Huff. The current journal, Stone Canoe Number 8, features the work of 24 artists chosen by 2014 arts editor Melora Griffis.

Participating artists include Doug Baird, Stephanie Barkley, Megan Biddle, Francis Clemente, Theresa DeSalvio, Vykky Ebner, Lorrie Fredette, Diana Godfrey, Walter Kopec, Kate Lawless, Steve Miller, Rachel Pea, Jen Pepper, Kathy Petrillo, Sarah Pfohl, Stephan Phillips, Larry Poole, Maria Rizzo, Mitchell Saller, Radio Sebastian, Kaitlyn Spina, Werner Sun, Ron Throop, Paul Weiner.

In Da Window 3: The overpass ahead of me, the wildflowers beneath
Echo

745 N. Salina St. (formerly Craft Chemistry)
Syracuse

There will be an artist reception and installation reveal this evening 5:00-7:00 pm.

"The overpass ahead of me, the wildflowers beneath" is a collaboration between photographer Joe Lingeman and poet Peter Mishler. The artists began by creating work in their respective media as a response to the neighborhood around the Echo shared studio space. Then, the artists exchanged "data," and, following cues from this exchange, set out to create more new work. The result is a photo and image response to the artists' collective experience on the North Side.

Yui Kugimiya: Cat Brushing Teeth & other works
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The exhibition will include Yui Kugimiya's works Cat Brushing Teeth (2008), Cronica de Una Muerte Anunciada (2012), and Sunset Donut (2012).

Not My Life (2011)
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

American independent documentary film by Robert Bilheimer about human trafficking and contemporary slavery, narrated by Glenn Close, hosted by STONE CANOE literary journal, and introduced by Nancy Keefe Rhodes.

What we call "human trafficking" is slavery, and it thrives today in every nation on earth, holding an estimated 29 million people in bondage. Filmed over four years, Robert Bilheimer's Not My Life takes us to 13 countries as well as five locations inside the U.S. The film uncovers what modern slavery looks like and also what modern abolitionists are doing about it. Premiered in 2011, Not My Life was broadcast in 2012 on CNN International and screened globally. Not My Life is the second film in a trilogy that addresses HIV, human trafficking and the environment. Newly re-edited and updated to reflect fast-changing developments, Not My Life comes to ArtRage as part of Stone Canoe Journal's annual launch and art exhibition. (84 minutes)

Death Takes a Cruise
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $32.50 (includes meal, show, tax and gratuities)
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Pack your costume, grab your party hat, and step aboard our venerable riverboat, The Mississippi Mistress, as we prepare to set sail down the "Big Muddy" for New Orleans and Mardi Gras! Woooo-hooo! The mighty Captain "Crawdaddy" Cretin will help you navigate the shoals, sand bars, (and wet bars), while Scooter, the Porter, and your Cruise Director, Lucy Belle Juniper, see to your comfort and entertainment. Watch out for the other passengers (They look pretty suspicious). Someone might not make it to the "Big Easy" alive.

Not Now, Darling
Central New York Playhouse
Dustin M. Czarny, director

Price: $15
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

The scene is the exclusive London fur salon of Bodley and Crouch, where Crouch (the well-meaning innocent) struggles to keep things on an even keel despite the energetic philandering of his partner. At the moment, Bodley is trying to secure the affections of his latest would-be mistress by "selling" her husband an expensive mink fur coat for a fraction of its real worth, and the stammering Crouch is saddled with the task of consummating the sale with a straight face. But, as luck would have it, the husband seizes the bargain coat as the perfect gift for his own mistress--whereupon the complications burgeon uproariously, with poor Crouch caught in the middle. Suspicious wives, mistaken identities, scantily clad girls clapped hurriedly into closets, and a continuous barrage of rapid-fire jokes all become part of the hilarious doings, as the action of the play bubbles along merrily right up to the final curtain when, miraculously and to the great relief of all concerned, everything somehow manages to work out as it should.

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Mama Said They'd Be Days Like This
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company
Ryan Johnson-Travis, director

Price: $20 in advance, $25 at the door
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

"Mama Said They'd Be Days Like This is a one-man show performed and written by Syracuse native Omanii Abdullah. With deep ties to the Syracuse community as a community organizer, professor, and restaurant owner, Abdullah traverses his experience as a son of a Southern mother and his journey as a father of five children. Join us for this wonderful journey of love and inspiration.

For more information and/or reservations, contact info@theprpac.org or 315-491-4738.

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Preview: Pterodactyls
Redhouse

Price: $15
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

In this wild comedy by Nicky Silver, dysfunction takes on new meaning with the Duncan family. We laugh throughout as we watch the family disintegrate, and finally realize the seeds of this dysfunction lie within us all.

These performances include a Talkback Series after the show.

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Friday, January 24, 2014

In Da Window 3: The overpass ahead of me, the wildflowers beneath
Echo

745 N. Salina St. (formerly Craft Chemistry)
Syracuse

"The overpass ahead of me, the wildflowers beneath" is a collaboration between photographer Joe Lingeman and poet Peter Mishler. The artists began by creating work in their respective media as a response to the neighborhood around the Echo shared studio space. Then, the artists exchanged "data," and, following cues from this exchange, set out to create more new work. The result is a photo and image response to the artists' collective experience on the North Side.

Penny Santy: The Nature of Our Soul
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

There will be an opening reception this afternoon 4:00-6:00 pm.

Penny Santy's works are representational pieces that break from that, at times, to abstraction. Her paintings embrace the human experience that is effected by or reflected in our natural surroundings. She has been inspired by the works of Gustav Klimpt, the impressionists, and the tonalists for the spiritual connection captured in their work, and by abstract expressionists like Philip Guston, Joan Mitchell and Willem de Kooning for the energy, paint textures and movement expressed in their works.

Gallery Exhibit: Meredith Cantor-Feller, Model American
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist Statement:
As an observer and artist I get my inspiration from the varied experiences of living and life. Using the mediums of photography and video allows me to put myself, if only briefly, into the experience of my subjects. Borrowing the still-life, snap-shots or momentary records of their lives. At times my subjects are aware of me and my camera yet there often remains a strong sense of invading of publicly private moments. I use these ready-made observations as the foundation for my questions about the living experience.

"Model American" is a working series of environmental portraits that examine the conflict of consumer expectations, behaviors and economics. This series features the employees of commonplace consumer environments posing as "Model Americans". The combination of environment and prop narrates the conflict between consumer want and human need, and the friction between consumer and citizen driving the Model American engine.

John James Audubon and the American Landscape
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

John James Audubon and the American Landscape showcases Syracuse University's copy of the rare double elephant folio The Birds of America. Printed in London and Edinburgh between 1827 and 1838, the work is a stunning visual catalog, featuring 435 plates depicting American bird life. The enterprise consumed much of Audubon's adult life and took him from the Pennsylvania woods to the Florida Keys and the Labrador coast. To its 19th-century audience, The Birds of America was much more than an ornithological inventory. It brought the exotic American wilderness into the drawing rooms and parlors of its wealthy subscribers. In 1896, former mayor of Syracuse and Syracuse University trustee James J. Welden donated a copy to the University. Today, The Birds of America is known for its extraordinary value, fetching more than ten million dollars at auction.

The exhibition situates The Birds of America in the wider contexts of Audubon's life, 19th-century scientific knowledge, and a rapidly changing landscape that was becoming less exotic each day. Also on display are Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology (1808–14), Audubon's textual companion to The Birds of America (Ornithological Biography, 1831–49), and later volumes that speak to Audubon's legacy, such as first editions of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) and Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (1949). Syracuse University's copy of The Birds of America is disbound, which makes it possible for visitors to the exhibition to consider several different prints at once. Some of the engravings on display include the barn owl, Swainson's hawk, and the long-billed curlew, all of which depict American avian life against the backdrop of encroaching civilization.

Crystal Glow
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Karen Kosicki: infrared photography
Max Block: dichroic fused glass jewelry and objects d'art
Mary Giehl: crystal sculpture grown from alum, and mixed media wall hangings featuring crochet elements

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Philipe Doddard: The Idea of Modernity in Haitian Contemporary Art
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Through bold brush strokes and vibrant color combinations, graphic and visual artist Philippe Dodard critically engages and empowers audiences throughout the world. Dodard, born and raised in Haiti, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Port-au-Prince and the International School of Bordeaux, France, where he explored graphic design. Although paintings are featured in this exhibition, Dodard is a diverse artist whose body of work includes metalwork, large sculptures and jewelry. Dodard's incredible talent has resulted in international recognition and creative collaborations including his most recent with fashion designer Donna Karan. Irrespective of the discipline or media, Dodard's aesthetic reflects his love for Haiti.

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Aspen Mays: Newspaper Rock
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Approaching her art making process like an anthropologist, artist Aspen Mays collects, appropriates and creates objects, information, photographs, ephemera, and artifacts that call into question our limited ability to understand or know the vastness, complexity, and sublime beauty of the physical universe. Her abstract images are made with a variety of photographic processes and are inspired by her passion for and connections within astronomy, prehistoric petroglyphs, anthropology, and science.

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition features photographs by seniors from the Art Photography Program in the Department of Transmedia, part of SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts. The bachelor of fine arts degree program in art photography is designed for students who plan to use photography as their primary creative medium. Many of these students will go on to exhibit their photographs nationally and work for magazines, advertising agencies, museums, galleries, corporations, educational institutions, and the fashion industry.

Exhibiting students include Marcy Ayres, Erica Bernstein, Paige Blinn, Cami Brown, Emily Edwards, Ashli Fiorini, Meagan Gregg, Krystle Gunter, Emily Hawing, Mark Hoelscher, Shelby Jacobs, Kelly Kazmierczak, Nicole Letson, Colin Liang, Victoria Nadler, Mary O'Brien, Allison Paap, Gabriela Perez, Sahra Roberts, Samantha Short, Amrita Stuetzle, Lilith Tagariello, Rachel Thalia, Ana Thor, Chris Trigaux, Katie Walsh, and Nils Wiklund.

Willson Cummer: Dawn Light
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Willson Cummer is a fine-art photographer, curator and teacher who lives in Fayetteville, NY. Images from his projects have been included in national juried exhibitions. His first solo New York City show opened in December 2011 at OK Harris. Willson's work explores humanity's place in the environment. In addition to his own work, he curates and publishes the blog New Landscape Photography. Willson has taught workshops at Light Work/Community Darkrooms, Syracuse University, and Cazenovia College.

Artist's Statement:

In late July of 2012, a five-month depression unexpectedly lifted. For the first time in a long while, I was able to wake up in the morning with energy, eager to explore the day. With my camera I quickly began shooting the early morning light as it fell upon Fayetteville, NY, my hometown. I walked from my front door most times, and occasionally drove a bit further into the village. I wanted to explore the territory closest at hand.

Light is a fundamental ingredient for photography. It has also, for centuries, been used as a metaphor for healing and recovery. As a recovering depressive, I wanted to explore the dawn light on a metaphorical level. As an artist, I wanted to record the gorgeous cross- light of the early morning and the rich yellow hue of the direct light.

I was attracted to humble structures: gas stations, parking lots, aging commercial buildings. The interplay of the natural world and the built environment is a subject which continues to excite me.

Petals in Winter: Photography by A.E. Andre
Maxwell Memorial Library

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

The exhibit features black-and-white, color, and colorized photographs of Sonnenberg Gardens in Canandaigua and other nature scenes. "Sonnenberg Gardens is one of the most wonderful places in New York State," says Andre, "and it has definitely inspired my own gardens as well. I want to show these pictures during our cold, snowy season to remind people of the beauty there is in the spring."

Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit will feature oil and watercolor paintings, photographs, drawings and prints of contemporary or vintage winter scenes of Onondaga County.

Fashion After Five
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit, Fashion After Five, curated by Syracuse University's Jeffrey Mayer, associate professor of fashion design and history and curator of the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, will explore the history of the cocktail dress with several spectacular garments from the collections of OHA and the Sue Ann Genet Collection. Also represented in the exhibit will be the work of students from the S.U. Department of Fashion Design who will present their own creations, inspired by the vintage dresses selected for the exhibition—a perfect way to combine the past and the present for this exciting new exhibit.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Skaneateles Winterfest
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Please join Gallery 54 as we celebrate Winterfest in Skaneateles. We will be featuring a collection of beautiful wood fired pottery by Bill Perrine of Homer. Enjoy ice sculptures, refreshments, and enter our free drawing to win a Gallery 54 gift certificate.

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Highlighting the breadth of the collections' encyclopedic holdings and exploring international artists and themes, these new displays explore the genres of photography, prints, paintings and sculpture. Two of the exhibitions on display in the Print and Photo Study Galleries will highlight the University's vast holdings of historical Japanese photographs and prints. The third exhibition will examine artwork created by international artists who have immigrated to the United States.

America's Calling, presented in the Gallery of American Art, is an exhibition of 16 works of art by 15 foreign-born artists, including Ben Shahn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Josef Albers. The artists included in the exhibition, or their families, were drawn to the United States because it offered opportunities unavailable in their homelands. A variety of media is presented in the display, including painting, ceramics, sculpture and printmaking that are handled using often innovative techniques. Cumulatively, these artists had a profound and permanent effect on the evolution of American art.

The Photo Study Room will present Visions for Sale: Photographs of Nineteenth Century Japan, an exhibition of 22 hand-colored albumen prints from the 19th century exploring the country's people, land and environment that was quickly changing due to modernization. European photographers such as Felice Beato and Baron Raimond Stillfield traveled to Japan to document the nation's exotic landscape and historically idiosyncratic jobs before they were swept away by the tide of modernism.

Ukiyo-e to Shin Hanga: Japanese Woodcuts from the Syracuse University Art Collection will be installed in the Print Study Room and draws from the University's collection of over 300 examples from this important and hugely influential art movement. The prints on view date from the height of color Ukiyo-e printmaking (c1780-1868) through Japan's Meiji period (1868-1912) to 20th century impressions of the Shin Hanga movement (1915-1940s). Masters of this medium are represented, including the work of Utamaro, Kuniyoshi, Hokusai, Hiroshida, Tsuchiya Koitsu and Yoshida Hiroshi. The prints exemplify the soft, painterly style that is synonymous with the Japanese woodcut, and illustrates the wide range of subjects from courtesans to Kabuki theater and the Japanese landscape.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

New Paintings by Jennissa Hart
Gallery 4040

Gallery 4040
4040 New Court Ave (off Midler), Syracuse

Domestic Vicissitudes: Works by Analia Segal
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Comprised of both a site-specific installation and a large scale video projection, this exhibition navigates the porous boundaries between art, design and architecture intertwining the conceptual, aesthetic and functional nature of the objects that compose the everyday scenarios we live in.

Argentina-born Analia Segalis a Guggenheim Fellow, and has received grants that include: Pollock Krassner Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, Fundación Konex, Fundación Antorchas, Bienal de Diseño-Universidad de Buenos Aires, and 100% Design. Her works has been exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally, as well as published in specialized magazines, catalogues and books, and it is included in private and public collections. She graduated as a Graphic Designer from the University of Buenos Aires and received her Masters Degree in Art from New York University. She lives and works in New York City since 1999.

Vein 8: Stone Canoe Exhibition
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Stone Canoe, A Journal of Arts, Literature and Social Commentary, is published annually by University College of Syracuse University. The prize-winning journal, now in its 8th year, is committed to communicating to the world at large the depth and diversity of the Upstate New York arts community, and each issue features a provocative mix of artists and writers, both well-known and emerging, with ties to the region. The journal's name is inspired by the oldest recorded Upstate New York story, the journey of the Peacemaker in his sacred canoe of stone from Lake Ontario to the Finger Lakes, where he brought the resident warring tribes together to form the Iroquois Confederacy. Each year, the journal's prize-winning writers and artists are presented with an original stone canoe carving by noted Native American sculptor Tom Huff. The current journal, Stone Canoe Number 8, features the work of 24 artists chosen by 2014 arts editor Melora Griffis.

Participating artists include Doug Baird, Stephanie Barkley, Megan Biddle, Francis Clemente, Theresa DeSalvio, Vykky Ebner, Lorrie Fredette, Diana Godfrey, Walter Kopec, Kate Lawless, Steve Miller, Rachel Pea, Jen Pepper, Kathy Petrillo, Sarah Pfohl, Stephan Phillips, Larry Poole, Maria Rizzo, Mitchell Saller, Radio Sebastian, Kaitlyn Spina, Werner Sun, Ron Throop, Paul Weiner.

Yui Kugimiya: Cat Brushing Teeth & other works
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The exhibition will include Yui Kugimiya's works Cat Brushing Teeth (2008), Cronica de Una Muerte Anunciada (2012), and Sunset Donut (2012).

Opening: A Military Series: A Parent's Perspective
The Art Store Gallery

Price: Free
The Art Store/Commercial Art Supply
935 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

This is a full presentation as the artist Sharon Blair will be walking through and sharing each painting's story. Many of you have seen them as they evolved and grew. Now see them all at the same time, and get the full impact of their stories.

Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
ArtRage Gallery

Price: $5 suggested donation
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

A technicolor valentine to a bygone era, and one of the loveliest, most engaging films ever made. In 1900s St. Louis, just before the World's Fair comes to town, four sisters go into a tizzy when Papa opts to move the family to NYC because of a new job. It all comes to life via luscious lensing, heartfelt performances and a joyous score of folk tunes, and it marks Judy Garland's cinematic coming-of-age. (Vicente Minelli, 113 minutes)

The Music of Andy Akiho
Onondaga Community College
Society for New Music

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Chamber music by steel pan virtuoso, Andy Akiho, ranging from string quartet with marimba to prepared steel pan, snare drum and digital playback.

Jazz@Sitrus: Michael & Anjela Lynn
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: No cover
Sitrus on the Hill
Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel, Syracuse

Martin Sexon, with Jay Nash
Creative Concerts

Price: $25, $40
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Parkington Sisters
Folkus Project

Price: $15 regular, $12 members
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

This sibling act from Cape Cod—one of biggest surprise hits of recent seasons—return with soaring harmonies and an energetic multi-instrument attack.

When Ariel, Sarah, Nora, and Rose Parkington of the Parkington Sisters pick up their instruments to strike up a song, the air begins to buzz. The chemistry between the four sisters is so present you feel like you can touch it—and as soon as they strike the first tone, it overwhelms the listener like tidal wave crashing down.

Each of the sisters is a songwriter and a multi-instrumentalist. With soaring melodies, tumbling from optimistic heights to eerie lows, vibrant harmonies and intricate arrangements, their songwriting incorporates the eclectic songwriting of Joni Mitchell and Aimee Mann, the energy of June Carter and the hit potential of Mumford and Sons.

Mozart's Don Giovanni
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: $10 regular, students free with SU ID
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Mozart's pictorial of the legendary Don Juan story is brought to life in his opera, Don Giovanni. In this production, the Setnor School of Music brings a contemporary staging and slant to this classic favorite. Don Giovanni will be performed in English with full orchestra and will feature graduate voice students Zoe Johnson and Angky Budiardjono. The production is directed by Eric Johnson, with musical direction by James Tapia.

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. Additional parking is available in Irving Garage. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

DWC Faculty Reading
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Join us to hear readings by DWC poetry instructor Yvonne Murphy, fiction instructor David Cole, and playwright Peter Moller.

*SOLD OUT* Les Misérables
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Korrie Taylor, director

Price: $22 regular in advance, $20 student in advance, $25 at door
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Baldwinsville Theatre Guild will dazzle you with a full-scale production of Claude-Michel Schönberg's Les Misérables. The musical, an epic saga based upon the 1862 novel by Victor Hugo, is entirely sung-through, with music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, French lyrics by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, and English language adaptation by Herbert Kretzmer. The story chronicles the struggles of Jean Valjean, a French peasant who searches for redemption after serving a prison sentence for stealing bread to feed his family.

The show will be done with full orchestration under the musical direction of Abel Searor.

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Not Now, Darling
Central New York Playhouse
Dustin M. Czarny, director

Price: $20
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

The scene is the exclusive London fur salon of Bodley and Crouch, where Crouch (the well-meaning innocent) struggles to keep things on an even keel despite the energetic philandering of his partner. At the moment, Bodley is trying to secure the affections of his latest would-be mistress by "selling" her husband an expensive mink fur coat for a fraction of its real worth, and the stammering Crouch is saddled with the task of consummating the sale with a straight face. But, as luck would have it, the husband seizes the bargain coat as the perfect gift for his own mistress--whereupon the complications burgeon uproariously, with poor Crouch caught in the middle. Suspicious wives, mistaken identities, scantily clad girls clapped hurriedly into closets, and a continuous barrage of rapid-fire jokes all become part of the hilarious doings, as the action of the play bubbles along merrily right up to the final curtain when, miraculously and to the great relief of all concerned, everything somehow manages to work out as it should.

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Mama Said They'd Be Days Like This
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company
Ryan Johnson-Travis, director

Price: $20 in advance, $25 at the door
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

"Mama Said They'd Be Days Like This is a one-man show performed and written by Syracuse native Omanii Abdullah. With deep ties to the Syracuse community as a community organizer, professor, and restaurant owner, Abdullah traverses his experience as a son of a Southern mother and his journey as a father of five children. Join us for this wonderful journey of love and inspiration.

For more information and/or reservations, contact info@theprpac.org or 315-491-4738.

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*SOLD OUT* Next to Normal
Redhouse

Price: $30 regular, $20 members, $15 student rush starting one hour before show
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Next To Normal tells the story of a mother, Diane Goodman, who struggles with bipolar disorder and the effect that her illness has on her family. This contemporary musical with an unforgettable score is an emotional powerhouse that addresses such issues as grieving a loss, ethics in modern psychiatry, and suburban life. Book and lyrics by Brin Yorkey, music by Tom Kitt.

These performances include a Talkback Series after the show.

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Saturday, January 25, 2014

In Da Window 3: The overpass ahead of me, the wildflowers beneath
Echo

745 N. Salina St. (formerly Craft Chemistry)
Syracuse

"The overpass ahead of me, the wildflowers beneath" is a collaboration between photographer Joe Lingeman and poet Peter Mishler. The artists began by creating work in their respective media as a response to the neighborhood around the Echo shared studio space. Then, the artists exchanged "data," and, following cues from this exchange, set out to create more new work. The result is a photo and image response to the artists' collective experience on the North Side.

Penny Santy: The Nature of Our Soul
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Penny Santy's works are representational pieces that break from that, at times, to abstraction. Her paintings embrace the human experience that is effected by or reflected in our natural surroundings. She has been inspired by the works of Gustav Klimpt, the impressionists, and the tonalists for the spiritual connection captured in their work, and by abstract expressionists like Philip Guston, Joan Mitchell and Willem de Kooning for the energy, paint textures and movement expressed in their works.

Crystal Glow
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Karen Kosicki: infrared photography
Max Block: dichroic fused glass jewelry and objects d'art
Mary Giehl: crystal sculpture grown from alum, and mixed media wall hangings featuring crochet elements

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Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Skaneateles Winterfest
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Please join Gallery 54 as we celebrate Winterfest in Skaneateles. We will be featuring a collection of beautiful wood fired pottery by Bill Perrine of Homer. Enjoy ice sculptures, refreshments, and enter our free drawing to win a Gallery 54 gift certificate.

Petals in Winter: Photography by A.E. Andre
Maxwell Memorial Library

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

The exhibit features black-and-white, color, and colorized photographs of Sonnenberg Gardens in Canandaigua and other nature scenes. "Sonnenberg Gardens is one of the most wonderful places in New York State," says Andre, "and it has definitely inspired my own gardens as well. I want to show these pictures during our cold, snowy season to remind people of the beauty there is in the spring."

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Fashion After Five
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit, Fashion After Five, curated by Syracuse University's Jeffrey Mayer, associate professor of fashion design and history and curator of the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, will explore the history of the cocktail dress with several spectacular garments from the collections of OHA and the Sue Ann Genet Collection. Also represented in the exhibit will be the work of students from the S.U. Department of Fashion Design who will present their own creations, inspired by the vintage dresses selected for the exhibition—a perfect way to combine the past and the present for this exciting new exhibit.

Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit will feature oil and watercolor paintings, photographs, drawings and prints of contemporary or vintage winter scenes of Onondaga County.

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Highlighting the breadth of the collections' encyclopedic holdings and exploring international artists and themes, these new displays explore the genres of photography, prints, paintings and sculpture. Two of the exhibitions on display in the Print and Photo Study Galleries will highlight the University's vast holdings of historical Japanese photographs and prints. The third exhibition will examine artwork created by international artists who have immigrated to the United States.

America's Calling, presented in the Gallery of American Art, is an exhibition of 16 works of art by 15 foreign-born artists, including Ben Shahn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Josef Albers. The artists included in the exhibition, or their families, were drawn to the United States because it offered opportunities unavailable in their homelands. A variety of media is presented in the display, including painting, ceramics, sculpture and printmaking that are handled using often innovative techniques. Cumulatively, these artists had a profound and permanent effect on the evolution of American art.

The Photo Study Room will present Visions for Sale: Photographs of Nineteenth Century Japan, an exhibition of 22 hand-colored albumen prints from the 19th century exploring the country's people, land and environment that was quickly changing due to modernization. European photographers such as Felice Beato and Baron Raimond Stillfield traveled to Japan to document the nation's exotic landscape and historically idiosyncratic jobs before they were swept away by the tide of modernism.

Ukiyo-e to Shin Hanga: Japanese Woodcuts from the Syracuse University Art Collection will be installed in the Print Study Room and draws from the University's collection of over 300 examples from this important and hugely influential art movement. The prints on view date from the height of color Ukiyo-e printmaking (c1780-1868) through Japan's Meiji period (1868-1912) to 20th century impressions of the Shin Hanga movement (1915-1940s). Masters of this medium are represented, including the work of Utamaro, Kuniyoshi, Hokusai, Hiroshida, Tsuchiya Koitsu and Yoshida Hiroshi. The prints exemplify the soft, painterly style that is synonymous with the Japanese woodcut, and illustrates the wide range of subjects from courtesans to Kabuki theater and the Japanese landscape.

Vein 8: Stone Canoe Exhibition
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Stone Canoe, A Journal of Arts, Literature and Social Commentary, is published annually by University College of Syracuse University. The prize-winning journal, now in its 8th year, is committed to communicating to the world at large the depth and diversity of the Upstate New York arts community, and each issue features a provocative mix of artists and writers, both well-known and emerging, with ties to the region. The journal's name is inspired by the oldest recorded Upstate New York story, the journey of the Peacemaker in his sacred canoe of stone from Lake Ontario to the Finger Lakes, where he brought the resident warring tribes together to form the Iroquois Confederacy. Each year, the journal's prize-winning writers and artists are presented with an original stone canoe carving by noted Native American sculptor Tom Huff. The current journal, Stone Canoe Number 8, features the work of 24 artists chosen by 2014 arts editor Melora Griffis.

Participating artists include Doug Baird, Stephanie Barkley, Megan Biddle, Francis Clemente, Theresa DeSalvio, Vykky Ebner, Lorrie Fredette, Diana Godfrey, Walter Kopec, Kate Lawless, Steve Miller, Rachel Pea, Jen Pepper, Kathy Petrillo, Sarah Pfohl, Stephan Phillips, Larry Poole, Maria Rizzo, Mitchell Saller, Radio Sebastian, Kaitlyn Spina, Werner Sun, Ron Throop, Paul Weiner.

New Paintings by Jennissa Hart
Gallery 4040

Gallery 4040
4040 New Court Ave (off Midler), Syracuse

Getting To Know You: Artists Examine Authentic Connections in the Digital Age
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

Featuring work by Fanny Allié, American Bear, CampusNeighbor, and damali abrams.

In the digital age, people can virtually live their lives online. With the advent of various social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, it is easier than ever to connect. However, are these relationships genuine? Furthermore, does a social medium foster intimacy or aid in the superficiality of our society? For this exhibition, 601 Tully does not seek to resolve these questions but rather, bring them to light. The featured artists offer avenues for people to have authentic connections with one another through various interactive mediums with and without the assistance of the internet.

New York-based artist, Fanny Allié, invited Syracuse residents to submit photos, memories, and stories about their lives in an attempt to learn more about the community. With each memento, Allié will construct a site-specific installation that will give the audience a window into the individuals living in this area.

While Allié's installation exemplifies the direct interaction between herself and the participant, the collaborative team of American Bear created prompts and assignments for the public to engage with one another. As the assignments are completed, American Bear hopes to foster a more compassionate and community-minded city.

Like many college towns, there is and has always been an underlying fissure between Syracuse University students and the permanent residents. In recent years, Nancy Cantor, former Syracuse University Chancellor, has worked to mend that divide by creating the initiative, Scholarship in Action. CampusNeighbor is a bartering website that builds on that idea by linking these two groups together through skill-sharing, with the hopes that these exchanges will help to dismantle barriers that have been created through the years.

Although all of the above require participation in order to activate the piece, damali abrams, a performance-based artist, takes a different approach by reading from her diary. By exposing herself in this vulnerable manner, it elicits the viewer to relate to her through shared experiences.

Whether one is simply telling their story to Allié or participating in CampusNeighbor, the exhibition aims to get to know you.

Yui Kugimiya: Cat Brushing Teeth & other works
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The exhibition will include Yui Kugimiya's works Cat Brushing Teeth (2008), Cronica de Una Muerte Anunciada (2012), and Sunset Donut (2012).

"Broken Resolutions" Show
Salt City Improv Theater

Price: $7
Salt City Improv Theatre
Shoppingtown Mall, Sears Wing, Dewitt

According to the experts, about half of the population makes New Year's resolutions. By the end of January, 92% of them will break those promises and fall back into their old ways. That's a boat-load of failure! We think folks ought to make things easier on themselves and lower the bar of expectations. Forget those hard-to-keep resolutions to diet and exercise. This year, resolve to do something useless. Like, be more diligent about the drier lint. Or, watch more Netflix. Remember: not making any changes is a lifestyle in itself.

We can help you resolve to laugh more ... with the hilarious improv comedy of Salt City Improv's house team, Pork Pie Hat (short-form improv in the style of the hit TV show "Whose Line Is It, Anyway.")

Soul Resonance
ArtRage Gallery

Price: $5 suggested donation
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

A film about the origins of Zimbabwean marimba music and its soulful connection with North America. Narrated by Taj Mahal, and Hosted by Kambuyu Marimba Ensemble.

"Soul Resonance" looks at the phenomenon of this high energy, poly-rhythmic music that has engulfed the lives of many. There is a deep spiritual aspect of the ancient music that seems to resonate with the souls of many people who hear it. This musical movement in North America started with the late Dr. Dumisani Maraire, but many other Zimbabweans followed and are continuing to share their music with the world. These musicians include but are not limited to Ephat Mujuru, Alport Mhlanga Astazio, Stella Chiweshe, Cosmas Magaya, Beauler Dyoko, Tute Chigamba, Irene Chigamba, Garadziva Chigamba, Julia Tsitsi Chigamba, Sheasby Matiure and Tendai Muparutsa. Like a pebble dropped into the water, the music of Zimbabwe has become a ripple that is spreading around the entire world. The people of Zimbabwe are eager to share their cultural richness. They tell us it is helping to keep their traditions alive, during these challenging political and economic times in Zimbabwe. (83 minutes)

As an added delight, we will be treated to a performance by the marimba group from Rochester, Serevende, led by Jennifer Kyker, who teaches at Eastman and has been involved in Zimbabwean music for 20+ years.

Donations will benefit Tariro, a non-profit organization that helps orphans in Zimbabwe.

Student Recital Series: Erica Hughes, flute
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. Additional parking is available in Irving Garage. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Isreal Hagan
Steeple Coffee House

Price: $10
United Church of Fayetteville
310 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

Masterworks Series: Latin Music!
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Manuel Lopez Gomez, conductor
Featuring Katherine Chi, piano

Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio Espagnol
De Falla Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Moncoya Huapango
Ravel Bolero

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Mozart's Don Giovanni
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: $10 regular, students free with SU ID
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Mozart's pictorial of the legendary Don Juan story is brought to life in his opera, Don Giovanni. In this production, the Setnor School of Music brings a contemporary staging and slant to this classic favorite. Don Giovanni will be performed in English with full orchestra and will feature graduate voice students Zoe Johnson and Angky Budiardjono. The production is directed by Eric Johnson, with musical direction by James Tapia.

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. Additional parking is available in Irving Garage. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Next to Normal
Redhouse

Price: $30 regular, $20 members, $15 student rush starting one hour before show
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Next To Normal tells the story of a mother, Diane Goodman, who struggles with bipolar disorder and the effect that her illness has on her family. This contemporary musical with an unforgettable score is an emotional powerhouse that addresses such issues as grieving a loss, ethics in modern psychiatry, and suburban life. Book and lyrics by Brin Yorkey, music by Tom Kitt.

These performances include a Talkback Series after the show.

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*SOLD OUT* Les Misérables
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Korrie Taylor, director

Price: $22 regular in advance, $20 student in advance, $25 at door
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Baldwinsville Theatre Guild will dazzle you with a full-scale production of Claude-Michel Schönberg's Les Misérables. The musical, an epic saga based upon the 1862 novel by Victor Hugo, is entirely sung-through, with music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, French lyrics by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, and English language adaptation by Herbert Kretzmer. The story chronicles the struggles of Jean Valjean, a French peasant who searches for redemption after serving a prison sentence for stealing bread to feed his family.

The show will be done with full orchestration under the musical direction of Abel Searor.

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Not Now, Darling
Central New York Playhouse
Dustin M. Czarny, director

Price: $34.95 dinner theater, $20 show only
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

Tonight's show will be preceded by dinner at 6:45 pm.

The scene is the exclusive London fur salon of Bodley and Crouch, where Crouch (the well-meaning innocent) struggles to keep things on an even keel despite the energetic philandering of his partner. At the moment, Bodley is trying to secure the affections of his latest would-be mistress by "selling" her husband an expensive mink fur coat for a fraction of its real worth, and the stammering Crouch is saddled with the task of consummating the sale with a straight face. But, as luck would have it, the husband seizes the bargain coat as the perfect gift for his own mistress--whereupon the complications burgeon uproariously, with poor Crouch caught in the middle. Suspicious wives, mistaken identities, scantily clad girls clapped hurriedly into closets, and a continuous barrage of rapid-fire jokes all become part of the hilarious doings, as the action of the play bubbles along merrily right up to the final curtain when, miraculously and to the great relief of all concerned, everything somehow manages to work out as it should.

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Mama Said They'd Be Days Like This
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company
Ryan Johnson-Travis, director

Price: $20 in advance, $25 at the door
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

"Mama Said They'd Be Days Like This is a one-man show performed and written by Syracuse native Omanii Abdullah. With deep ties to the Syracuse community as a community organizer, professor, and restaurant owner, Abdullah traverses his experience as a son of a Southern mother and his journey as a father of five children. Join us for this wonderful journey of love and inspiration.

For more information and/or reservations, contact info@theprpac.org or 315-491-4738.

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Pterodactyls
Redhouse

Price: $30 regular, $20 members, $15 student rush starting one hour before show
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

In this wild comedy by Nicky Silver, dysfunction takes on new meaning with the Duncan family. We laugh throughout as we watch the family disintegrate, and finally realize the seeds of this dysfunction lie within us all.

These performances include a Talkback Series after the show.

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